Sorry, I realized I neglected this part . . .
I had written . . .
If any be in Christ he is a new creation. If someone is not in Christ, what should be concluded?
Do you not know that if you are baptized into Christ you are baptized into His death? Buried with Him in baptism, that as He was raised from the dead so also we should walk in newness of life. If someone is not in Christ, what should be concluded?
In Christ we have every spritual blessing. Again, if someone is not in Christ, what should be concluded?
I suggest this does not represent a correct soteriology.
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If any be in Christ he is a new creation. If someone is not in Christ, what should be concluded?
2 Corinthians 5
16 Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more.
17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
18 And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;
19 To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
Do you not know that if you are baptized into Christ you are baptized into His death? Buried with Him in baptism, that as He was raised from the dead so also we should walk in newness of life. If someone is not in Christ, what should be concluded?
Romans 6
3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
In Christ we have every spritual blessing. Again, if someone is not in Christ, what should be concluded?
Ephesians 1
2 Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:
4 According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
5 Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
6 To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.
Whatever you may mean when you call these "dogmatic certainties", kind of a tautology, actually, but these are plain statements in the Bible. As you don't think the Bible speaks to us, God speaking, actually, then we're obviously not on the same page.
To call this a Pathology . . . well, gee, what are you trying to say???
You are obviously very attached to an ideology that seems to promise you a good outcome. That is a common human way to get people onboard with a psychological positioning. It works in religion and politics....and consumerism. The devil knows his work.
But here is the truth...most believers today are neither holy NOR righteous. They have abandoned humility and the fear of the Lord for being in a "superior" place of a "special salvation" based on certain dogmatic beliefs taken selectively from the bible. The fact that people can't see that is based on a pathological blindness. They don't want the dream to end.
A person can claim to be holy...because the bible tells him so (apparently) yet be so grossly mistaken that he is sinning against righteousness AND holiness. IOW...no honesty there.
Better to simplify and humble oneself...and not claim anything that people all around you are not saying about you...and even then...be careful what and who you listen to. The devil wants to make you feel good about yourself.
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